Force or suction cup



Dec. 15, 1931.

A. J. TEIGELER FORCE OR SUCTION CUP Filed May 28, 1930 i/3 &tte 014243 25 holding means for the handle.

Patented Dec. 15,\1931 v PATENT OFFICE i .ALFRED J'. TEIGELER, OF RUTHERFOItD, NEW JERSEY 'nonen on suc'rov CUP Application filed May 28,

The invention relates to rubber cups of the character used for eXerting a pumping action in dran pipes or soil pipes of plumbing fixtures in order to loosen material clogged therein, and the chief object of the invention is to provide a handle having means Secured:

thereto which will interengage with a socket formed in the cup member so as to prevent the loosening and removal of the handle when Operating the device.

The invention will be the following specfi'cation when read in connection with the accompanying drawings in which i i Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section through a suction cup embodying the invention; v Fig. 2 is a view showing the parts of Fig 1 before assembly; i

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail view illustrating an alternative embodiment of the invention; i

Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate a modified form of Heretofore force or suction cups have been provided with plain stick-like handles which engage sockets formed in the cups. V Such handles soon loosen and become disengaged from the cup, when the device is operated( It has been proposed to form screw threads on the end'of the handle, but such arrange-` ment is objectionable because of the difliculty of forming screw threads in 'the rubber or 5 similar material of which this cup is usually made. Furthermore, when a threaded handle is engaged with a socketed rubber cup, practice has shown that the handle soon works loose and separates from the cup. This is due in part to the flexibility of rubber threads and to the weakening of such rubber threads by repeated reversing strains to which they are subjected when the cup is operated. Such threads are costly to produce and add to the 5 expense of both the handle and the cup.

My invention ams to overcome the deficiencies found in prior devices and at the same time to provide an arrangementwhich can be readly manufactured at a relatively small cost. With these and other Vobjects in;

fully' apparent from y i disc extends, thus interlocking the handle conical metal disc member 20% as shown in 1930. Serial No. 456,*773.

View, my invention further consists in the constructional arrangement and combination oj? the parts heroin shown, described and claimed. i

Referring to the drawings in detail, 10 represents the rubber cup as a whole which is formed with a chamber 12 and a neck portion 14: having a socketl formed therein.

i A handle 18 of substantally cylindrical shape' has adished metal disc 20 Secured to theextremity thereof by means of a suitable fastening device such as a nail 22. Or the disc may be secured by. a Wood screw 22 as shown in Fig. 4:.

w 'The disc 20 is of larger diameter than the handlelS and as clearly shown in Fg.

the disc 20 secured thereto is forced into the socket 16. This stretches the neck portion 14 of the cup and forms a small annular void 26 into which the projecting flange 28 of the structure with the rubber cup structure. A disc of metal, fiber or other suitable material, is a more effective* holding device than a screw threaded connection because it per- 'mits the use of a deep plain socket, whose 30 `walls are not weakened by threading at a number of successive points along the length of the socket, The dished form of the disc shown in Figs. 1 and 2 'facilitates the assembly of parts, it being clear that the crown or rounded shape will exert a sort of wedging action when the handle is forced into the socket. Instead of using the dished'disc of Figs. 1 and 2, I maycmploya pointed or Fig. 1.

A handle 18 having such a'conical disc can be very easilyinsert'ed in the socket of neck portion of the rubber cup even though the diameter of the socket is much smaller-than the diameter of the disc and handle. Yet once the parts are assembled they will not Work loose, when the device is used.

In the modification of Figs. 5 and 6, the disc 20 has a central 'lug 30 struck up therefrom the hendle 18 has a saw liel'f 32 forncd in the end thereof to zicconnnodate the lu A transversely extending nail or rvet 34: serves to festen the disc firnily to the extrenity of the handle.

The constructions described (ten be quickly and cheaply inauufctured, s the hundles ore made ofstock size Wood such es nse l for broom hendles and the like and the discs can be punched out in quantities en known types locking means described ei'fectivcly prevents the handle froni slipping out of the socket or froni Working loose :s the handle of the device is repeatedly reeiproceted.

lVhile the invention has been described in connection With the einhodiments illustrated 1 it Will be understood that .it may be epplied to other articles of rubher or the like which requires ::od-like member interloclced there- With.

While I have described the elnbodinents of the invention illustrated With 'great particularity 'it is not to he construecl that I am limited thereto since various nodificatons and substitutions of equivalents may be made Without depart ing fronthe invention` as defined in the appended claims.

- hat I claim is z l. A rubber article having` {L socket formed therein a Wooden i handle having one end seated in the socket, 'diss of larger diameter than the part of the handle seated in the socket and neans piercing and securing the disc to the end of the handle seated in' the socket handle.

the hundle, said disc being of larger diameter then the normal diameter of the socket and l) .ng mlipted to distort the Wall thereof adjucent the inner extrenity of the handle.

5 suction cup formed of flexible material .nd having u socket thei-ein, a handle sented t and 11 disc of larger diameter the lc-ndle secured to the extremity 'ewt seid dis:: being dished to fzicilitate inion into the socket.

(i. suction cup ofrubher or siniihr flexole ni 'teriel having; a SOClCtCd neck portion, :1 Woodeu-h mdle, ;1 metal disc having a porforetion thei-ein and securing means passing ;my name.

ALFRED J. TEIGELER.

'9. A rubber suction cup having a neck portion With en elongated socket formed therein, {L handle seated in said tsocket and against the bottom of said socket and adapted' to expancl the Walls of said soclet.

3. A rubber suction cup having a neck portion With a cylindricel socket fol-med therein, :i hendle seated in seit:: soclet and a cupped netal disc Secured to the extremity of the hzudle and project-ing; beyond the outer surface thercof and into an annuler void for-med by distorting* the neck portion over the disc on the extreinity of the handle.

l. A rubbor article formed of fiexible elastic material and having; an elongated platin cylindrical' socket therein, a cylindrical Wooden handle seeted in the soeket and means for interloeling the handle With the soclet conprising a metal dsc Secured to the end of 

